# Rainbows

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows/748870>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 13, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows/748870 "2016-03-13T16:14:27Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![HoneyBadgerDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honeybadgerdc/32/1033_2.png) [@HoneyBadgerDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HoneyBadgerDC)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows/748870/1 "2016-03-13T16:14:27Z")

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Does a rainbow have any known impact on anything in nature, even the tiniest thing would qualify? Is there any evidence that birds might fly in that direction? Anything?

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**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2016, 10:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows/748870/2 "2016-03-13T22:51:44Z")

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I don’t know if this counts as nature, but I had a ringneck parrot who stood near a crystal which made a rainbow on her shoulder. She saw the rainbow and tried to pick it up and was quite annoyed when I laughed.

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**Author:** ![buddha\_david](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ee7513/32.png) [@buddha\_david](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/buddha_david)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 12:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rainbows/748870/3 "2016-03-14T00:02:10Z")

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Of course they have an impact. Where else would leprechauns stash their gold?